Daily Republican., 1887-02-22
FOURTH EDITION
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Chief Of Detectives Kelly made .
start yestsrdsy morning in the inves-
ttRstton OF the murder OF the man
whose dismembored trunk was found
near Eddipeton, Bucks connty, last
week, and from inlormstion gathered
by Detectives Miller, Tate, Ora y ford
colored woman known - Hannah
May Tahbs on suspicion Of having
taken the body TO tho place where it
was found.
The first clue was the discovery that
Waite Gaines, . young colored man
about twenty-one years old, who
boarded with Mrs Williams, ct 207
6chell rect, had been missing since
the morning OF Wednesday last. His
sister, Mrs. Jennie Cannon, who lives
ct 1918 Lemon street, IL OF the opinion
that 10 was his body that was found,
from the tact that II was his custom to
call ct her house every day when In the
city, and to always notify her Of his In.
tsnded abse noe. His last visit was on
Tuesday evening OF last week, 1t which
time he said nothing Of leaving town,
but on the contrary promised 40 usual
to return next day.
She describes her brother ~ being Of
medium height and build, and distin
guishcd BY particularly low or stopping
shoulders, which corresponds with
those of the body found. When ehe
was seen by the detectives and Ques-
toned ~ to the friends and Associates
Of her brother she mentioned the name
OF Mary Tabs. colored woman with
whom he bad been intimate.
In the courso of her conversation she
esid that about two weeks ago Mary
Tabbs had passed by her house, And
finding her brother talking to girl on
the street broke out into q terrible rage
and attacked him, driving him into the
house. Sue WAS attracted 70 the door
by the noise OF the alteration, aud AZ
her brother ran toward her she heard
the Tabba woman threaten him, saying
she would kill him or get even with
him.
Mrs. Cannon also said that Mrs.
Tabbs had called ut her house yesterday
morning, bringing with her a news.
paper containing an account Of the find
ing OF the body, and burst out crying,
saying she was suse il must have been
the body of Gaines. The conduct OF the
woman made dee p impression on che
mind OF Mrs. Cannon, and confirmed
her former belief that the remains were
really those of her missing brother.
The next step was TO fiud Mary Tabs,
and when the officers visited her house
ut 1912 Richard street, they found she
had gone to Eddington for the alleged
purpose of hearing something about
her missing niece, Annie Richardson.
De ectives Miller and Tate were sta
toned ut the Broad Street Station 70
watch incoming trains, and 1t half.
past 8 O'Clock we're rewarded by the Ap-
pearance of Mrs. 1abbs, and they at
once placed her under srres..
On being taken before Chief Kelly the
woman repeated the story of having
fallen on the ice and injured her hip
and of being treated at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, which the suspected woman
had told Condu tor Frank G.. Swain on
the train on the evening before the discov-
cry was made. Tie woman was detain-
ed until the arrival OF Conductor
Swain last night at headquarters, when
he fully identified her as the person
who rode on his train with the bundle,
and to whom he had given the rebate
ticket between Cornwall and Eddington.
She was locked up uutil further invest.-
| cation Of the case can be made.
Nothing has been heard from the miss =
| ing man since his disappearance, except
through postal card, purporting to have
been written by him TO his andlady, Mrs
Williams, In which he said he was de-
tanned nursing sick friend, and that he
would send her some money in a few
days. Mrs. Williams and others In the
house, who were familiar with the mans
handwriting, say that the postal card was
not written by him, but this fact cannot
be proved further, from the fact that the
postal had been destroyed before the Off
GERS called at the house. Energetic search
is being made for the missing man, and
should he be found the theories OF the de
tectives of course will fall, but from Tho
facts so far obtained 1t is the general i'm
preston that the dismembered bod,
found on the banks of the stream WA
that of Waite Gaines.